Timeless Assassin Volume 5:
Chasing A Shadow
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"It has never mattered who sits on the throne… only who appears to sit on the throne.
Symbols rule far more effectively than swords.
And if you can birth a symbol so divine, so immaculate, that entire systems orbit his shadow…
Then it no longer matters whether he can fight, think, or even speak.
All that matters is that his image survives, long enough for others to kill in his name."
— Supreme Historian Vaelor Varn, Anatomy of Empire, 6th Cycle Edition.
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The news of Veyr becoming the next Dragon broke first on the outer rim.
Small neutral colonies on the edges of Cult-Regulated space received the broadcast of his crowning moment around dawn, as netizens quietly took photos and quickly posted it onto their GalaxNet feeds.
At first, it looked like a prank, just a photo of some youngster being felicitated.
